2005 · comedy · drama · romance
Shopgirl
Directed by Anand Tucker1h 44m2005
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
Our read: Shopgirl (2005) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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